My third nice grand uncle William Snell Chauncy (1820–1878) was an English surveyor who emigrated to Australia in 1840.
He was the half-brother of my third nice grandfather, Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816–1880). Their father was William Snell Brown Chauncy né Brown (1781–1845), the pure son of William Snell Chauncy (1756–1829).
Rose, first spouse of William Snell Brown Chauncy and mom of Philip and his sisters Martha and Therese, died in 1818.
William (as William Brown) remarried in 1819, to Anne Curtis (1791–1868). William and Anne had 5 youngsters. William Snell Chauncy né Brown, born on 11 August 1820 in Addlestone, Surrey, was the oldest. On 16 August 1820, William junior was baptised with the title William Brown at St Peter’s, in Chertsey, Surrey.
About 1834 William junior’s half-sister Martha painted his portrait. This small work on ivory, is within the assortment of the Artwork Gallery of South Australia.
Within the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia Dimensions 12.3 x 9.7 cm Credit score line J.C. Earl Bequest Fund 1993 Accession quantity 936P43
The portrait appears likeness. He’s rendered very very similar to a later portrait of him.
In 1840 William Chauncy junior, whereas working as an architect and surveyor on a grandstand for Ascot racecourse, met Anna Cox, whom he married at St Michael & All Angels, Sunninghill, Berkshire, on 7 July 1840.
On 23 July the newly married couple and William’s brother Hugh (1823–1900) sailed from Liverpool to Adelaide on the ‘Very good‘. William’s two older half-sisters Theresa and Martha had settled in Adelaide in 1837 and his half-brother Philip had joined them in 1839. (Their father had sailed on the Appoline to South Australia a month earlier.) William and Anna, with William’s younger brother Hugh, arrived at Port Adelaide on 22 November 1840.
In 1844 William returned to England and Eire through South Africa. In 1849 he got here again to Australia. As a surveyor he spent a lot of his profession in northeastern Victoria. He later labored for the New South Wales Authorities. In 1861 he supervised the construction of the first road bridge to span the Murray River between Wodonga and Albury, New South Wales. In 1868 he was appointed highway superintendent at Goulburn, New South Wales; his duties being enhancements to the principle Sydney to Melbourne highway (now the Hume Freeway).
In 1878 William Chauncy died in Goulburn on the age of 57..
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